If you’ve ever wondered who wrote the first Christmas newsletter or why compact fluorescent lightbulbs might be a Communist plot, Gimme 15 Inches is for you! Naked samurai swordsmen? Buzz Aldrin? Rugged revolutionaries who demand two kinds of sandwich spread and sliced cheese to make the fight more palatable? A school board president who deems Herb Alpert the devil’s disciple? They’re all here. Why not join them?

Inspired by Looney Tunes, Steve Allen, Mel Brooks, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Mad magazine and a raft of punsters and social commentators both famous and infamous, award-winning writer Dave Molter for almost 30 years has written columns about life's adsurdities and made them even more so. Drawing from today's headlines or stories buried on life's back pages, Gimme 15 Inches collects the best of Dave's columns and essays in one place for the first time.